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French ex-President Jacques Chirac Guilty of Corruption 15 December 2011=
A French court has given former President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust. Mr Chirac, 79, was not in court to hear the verdict because of ill-health but denied wrong-doing.President from 1995 to 2007, he was put on trial on charges that dated back to his time as mayor of Paris.He was accused of paying members of his Rally for the Republic (RPR) party for municipal jobs that did not exist.The prosecution had urged the judge to acquit Mr Chirac and nine others accused in the trial. Two of the nine were cleared. The other seven were found guilty and all but one handed suspended prison sentences. Jean de Gaulle, grandson of former President Charles de Gaulle, was handed a three-month suspended term while former union leader Marc Blondel, 73, was convicted but escaped a sentence.
In 2004, during his presidency, several figures including France's current Foreign Minister Alain Juppe were convicted in connection with the case. Mr Juppe was given a 14-month suspended sentence.Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, is the first former French head of state to be convicted since Marshal Philippe Petain, the leader of the wartime Vichy regime, was found guilty in 1945 of collaborating with the Nazis.The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris said the verdict would be seen as a stain on Mr Chirac's character. The guilty verdict came as a surprise. There had been a lot of effort on the part of the defence and the ruling party to try to make this case go away. They pointed to Mr Chirac's health - he's been suffering from memory lapses since a stroke some years ago. The ruling UMP had paid the city of Paris almost 2m euros to reimburse the money that was said to have been stolen. In the end the judges weren't swayed. They could have given Mr Chirac anything up to 10 years in prison. But these were allegations dating back almost 20 years and there's such nostalgia at the moment for the former president that it would have been perhaps unfair and not particularly popular to send him to jail. The case was divided into two parts: the first count involved embezzlement and breach of trust in relation to 21 bogus jobs; the second related to a charge of illegal conflict of interest concerning seven jobs. He was found guilty of both.The former president, who had legal immunity during his time as head of state, faced a potential 10 years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros for the employment of more than 20 bogus officials."Jacques Chirac has breached the duty of probity required for public officials, to the detriment of the public interest of Parisians," said tribunal judge, Dominique Pauthe.Although he himself was not in court, Mr Chirac's adopted daughter Anh Dao Traxel was present to hear the verdict which she described as "too, too severe for him" and a great source of pain. "As a family, we should all absolutely support him... for his health for the rest of his life," she said in an emotional statement outside the court.The former president's doctors say he has irreversible neurological problems which cause memory lapses. His legal team will now consider whether to appeal against the conviction. There was little sympathy from some quarters. "I call on Mr Chirac to accept the consequences of his conviction and indeed resign from the Constitutional Council," said Green presidential candidate Eva Joly, referring to his role in France's highest authority for constitutional issues. His rival for the presidency in 2002, former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, described the verdict as "a ray of sunshine in the black sky of scandals". BBC News
Chirac d.o.b. is given as 29 November 1932, 12.00, Paris, France (from Astrotheme).He has Aquarius rising. Its ruler Uranus is on the cusp of the 3rd House and makes a trine aspect to Mercury in Sagittarius. This suggests that communication is centred on individual thought processes independent of the more popular view. It tends to be ahead of its time with interest in political and humanitarian issues. But, Mercury squares Jupiter and this is indicative of grandiose and sometimes exaggerated statements. Remarks can be thoughtless and may lack practicality. And as they are reciprocal rulers of 8th House and Mc, litigation over financial 'contracts' is always a possibility.The Sun is also in Sagittarius conjunct the Mc, befitting the man who became president. But they square a Mars-Neptune conjunction in the 7th House (which it rules) in Virgo and this would suggest that partnerships are an area where naivety and deception of some sort is likely to bring about disappointment and dissolution. This is echoed by Venus in Scorpio in the 9th House square to Saturn in Aquarius in the 12th House, which indicates deceptive and irresponsible values that can affect ones' relationships and social standing. Manipulation and corruption are likely in order to gain political power and wealth (Pluto square to Uranus). L.S.
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